Called to Serve

Some of these final weeks in Honduras have been especially challenging for Elder Call: he’s been serving as the Assistant to the mission president in the midst of political protests and rioting, and he's also developed an infection from some what was likely unclean water that he drank. So, he’s sick, tired, and happy. The happy part comes from helping people to change their lives for the better, and Elder Call shares a few short stories about that in this audio letter from December 18, 2017.

An audio letter Elder Andrew Call recorded on December 1st, 2017, after a long, busy day of serving. How service helps us to see others from God's perspective, even on our not-so-good days. Plus, Elder Mosley expands his list of acceptable foods!

After a long hiatus, the Called to Serve podcast is back. This episode features excerpts from December audio letters from Elder Andrew Call (serving in Monterrey, Mexico). Listen to his parables of the fishermen and the football.

Welcome to a new missionary on the podcast, my nephew Elder Nate Haruch! Nate is the roommate of my second oldest son, Andrew…they’re attending Brigham Young University together this year. Just a few weeks ago Nate received his LDS mission call, and today we’re going to listen to the audio recording of him opening it on that special day.

In this January 2017 audio letter, Elder Call describes a teaching situation with an investigator, and a member named Juan Carlos who accompanied the missionaries. Missionaries can become really polished at teaching, but Juan Carlos threw the elders a bit of a curve ball, and Elder Call learned something special.

Many past episodes of Called to Serve have featured Elder Spencer Call reporting from his mission to Honduras. In this week’s audio letter, Elder Call did something a little different: he recorded a personal letter to two of his teenage sisters with counsel on being a teenager and preparing for adulthood.

Elder Richard Crowley sent an audiotape from his mission in Australia in March of 1981. He and his companion recorded a "day in the life of a missionary," with a goal to find someone to take to a fireside that night. Finding, teaching, haunting "milk bars", and more.

In January of 2017 Elder Call interviews his new, and first American, mission companion: Elder Elmer!

Elder Call and his companion are zone leaders, which means that they help to lead and train about 40 missionaries in their local area. Earlier this month Elder Call spent a week doing divisions with seven missionaries, and profiles each one.

My nephew Eric Knudsen completed a mission to St. George, Utah in 2014, and on a Sunday in July of that year, with lots of family gathered around, he shared some of his experiences, both the good and the bad.